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The Million Dollar Toilet

milliondollartoilet.com ↗ · launched 29 Jan 2026 · 211 days so far

Nick Greenawalt, a motion designer in Philadelphia, projects sponsor logos onto the toilet in his bathroom and films it. The website is a 3D model of the toilet with every logo at its exact position, and the counter is the sum of the published sponsor prices. There is no price list; every deal is negotiated, and every price is published. Twenty-five sponsors in seven months, from 1,000 to 17,000 dollars. The audience is on Instagram and TikTok, not on X. At the current pace the million would take until about 2031.

Creator: Nick Greenawalt · @motionbynick · 15,830 followersCurrency: USDGoal: $1,000,000 · 13 % reachedUpdated: 28 Aug 2026 21:58 UTC
Reported revenue
$127,500
Last 24 hours
$0
0.0 % · from snapshots
Last 7 days
+$7,000
+5.8 % · from snapshots
Post views
40.1M
public views of tracked posts, 30 days
Peak revenue
$127,500
highest figure on record

Revenue over time 12 snapshots · cumulative

$0$64k$128k29JAN08FEB23FEB28MAY11JUL28AUGattention peak · day 88
First 24 h $0 · peak revenue $127,500 · 70 % of revenue came after the attention peak

Social attention impressions per day

020M40M29JAN08FEB23FEB28MAY11JUL28AUG
Latest day: n/a impressions · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies · 0 visits

Status the rules

Growing Revenue up 5.8 % in the last 7 days.

Revenue went up at least 5 percent in the last 7 days and the site is online.

Revenue history

First 24 hours$0Peak$127,500Attention peakedday 88After the peak70 % of revenueDays active211Snapshots12 daily

In one sentence editorial

Every sponsor becomes a video, and "King of the Throne" makes the highest payer compete. The first six sponsors paid 2,417 dollars on average, the last six 8,833.

AbsurdityVanity and statusCreator audience

The facts Space on a thing

A real object or a person carries your logo: a laptop lid, a car, a toilet, a forehead, a shirt.

What is soldSpace on a thingPrice forms byTiers or rising priceLives onPhysical objectHow oftenNever endsNext buyer viaPress and absurdity · taxonomyMonetizationProjection-mapped ad space on a real toilet, sold by zonePricingNo price list; every deal negotiated; paid range so far 1,000 to 17,000 dollarsGoal$1,000,000InventoryFive zones on a grid (lid, seat, tank, front, bottom); 25 sponsors so farLaunch platformInstagram and TikTok videos; X is the weaker channelCore mechanicEach sponsor becomes a video, and the highest payer wears the crownRepeatableYes, it can sell again

How the mechanism works, and why it works here 7 of 7 blocks · the schema

Every project is taken apart with the same seven questions, each borrowed from a standard analysis tool, so you can compare this one with any other on the board. The funnel numbers come from the daily snapshots, not from the creator.

Post views, 30 days
40.1M
public view counts of tracked posts
Website visits (creator-provided)
0
0.0 percent of impressions
Revenue, 30 days
$128k
no visit data · $3 per 1,000 impressions
1

What is exchanged

Value Proposition Canvas

Brands pay for a video in which their logo is projected onto a real toilet, and for a permanent place in the 3D model on the website. Toilet-adjacent companies (Dude Wipes, Dr. Squatch, Poo-Pourri) buy a joke that fits their category; betting sites buy reach. One video passed 40 million views.

2

How the price forms

Pricing mechanism analysis

No price list. Every deal is negotiated, and every price is published, which is the whole pricing mechanism: the first six sponsors paid 2,417 dollars on average, the last six 8,833. "King of the Throne" rewards the highest payer, so the top keeps moving (11,000, then 16,000, then 17,000).

3

Supply and scarcity

Scarcity and inventory analysis

The toilet is divided into five zones on a grid, so there is always room for one more logo. The scarcity is invented by the goal: one million dollars, 12.75 percent reached after seven months.

4

Growth loop

Viral loop analysis

Each sponsor becomes a video, and the videos are where the audience is: Instagram and TikTok, not X, where the best post reached 142,457 views. The website is the archive and the sales page, not the traffic source.

5

Defensibility

Moat and clone analysis

Twenty-five videos and the toilet itself. Nobody has copied it in seven months, probably because the product is the creator's motion design work, not the toilet.

6

What can kill it

Failure mode analysis

Pace: at the current rate the million arrives around 2031. One person produces everything. Gambling sponsors can scare off consumer brands, and the videos depend on two platforms' feeds.

7

Why it works here

Editorial verdict

This is a video production business wearing an ad-space costume. Prices rose because the reach rose; the million is the joke that keeps the counter interesting.

Evidence · 10 items

24 Aug 2026
Counter on the project website
Layout endpoint and Helix video: "only $872,500 left to go", 12.75 percent · reported revenue: $127,500 · milliondollartoilet.com (reachable, checked 28 Aug 2026) · All 25 sponsor prices sum to exactly this figure. Data quality: the Helix entry in the live data carries the key "helix-logo" instead of a name.
Public counter
11 Jul 2026
Counter on the project website
Layout endpoint /api/layout: ACR Poker, $17,000, King of the Throne · reported revenue: $120,500 · milliondollartoilet.com (reachable, checked 28 Aug 2026)
Public counter
9 Jun 2026
Post by the creator
King Kong video: "$898,500 left to go" · reported revenue: $101,500 · instagram.com (reachable, checked 28 Aug 2026)
Public counter
28 May 2026
Counter on the project website
Counter, Wayback copy: "$920,500 remaining, 8.00 percent complete" · reported revenue: $79,500 · web.archive.org (reachable, checked 28 Aug 2026)
Public counter
27 Apr 2026
Article by a third party
Press: one video above 40 million views, a second near 13 million · impressions: $40,000,000 · tbsnews.net (reachable, checked 28 Aug 2026)
Claimed
23 Feb 2026
Post by the creator
Clorox video: "$961,500 left to go" · reported revenue: $38,500 · instagram.com (reachable, checked 28 Aug 2026)
Public counter
8 Feb 2026
Article by a third party
X trend summary: $17,000 in the first week · reported revenue: $17,000 · x.com (reachable, checked 28 Aug 2026) · Does not match the counter, which read 4,000 dollars one week after launch. Probably counts booked deals not yet published; the creator spoke of "five figures in the queue" on 2 February. The same summary lists price tiers up to 75,000 dollars that no primary source supports.
Claimed
8 Feb 2026
Post by the creator
"$985,500 left to go" · reported revenue: $14,500 · instagram.com (reachable, checked 28 Aug 2026)
Public counter
3 Feb 2026
Post by the creator
First sponsor MoonPay: "$999,000 left to go" · reported revenue: $1,000 · instagram.com (reachable, checked 28 Aug 2026) · Views and likes are from the X post of 2 February, the strongest X post; Instagram is the main channel.
Public counter
29 Jan 2026
Post by the creator
Launch post: "$1,000,000 left to go" · reported revenue: $0 · instagram.com (reachable, checked 28 Aug 2026)
Public counter

What happened 9 events

  • New sponsor detected: Helix, $7,000, the 25th sponsor
  • Status changed: Website relaunched as a 3D modelFrom a Squarespace page with a text counter to a self-built Three.js toilet with clickable sponsors. Date approximate: between the Wayback copies of 28 May and 13 August.
  • New sponsor detected: ACR Poker, $17,000, takes the throne
  • New sponsor detected: MyBookie, $16,000
  • New sponsor detected: Morgan & Morgan, $11,000, becomes King of the Throne
  • Evidence added: Radio interview, 93.3 WMMR Philadelphiahttps://wmmr.com/2026/05/05/philly-native-turning-toilet-advertising-into-a-million-dollar-venture/
  • New sponsor detected: Dr. Squatch, $10,000, first five-figure deal
  • Creator posted an update: X post: "My toilet will make me a millionaire"Reports comments from MoonPay, KitKat and Slim Jim, and "five figures worth of ads in the queue". https://x.com/motionbynick/status/2018331222708031682
  • Launched: Launched on Instagram

Daily snapshots latest 10 of 12

DateRevenueReachImpressionsLikesRepostsRepliesVisits (creator)Online
28 Aug 2026$127,50040.1Mn/an/an/an/an/ayes
28 Aug 2026$127,50040.1Mn/an/an/an/an/ayes
24 Aug 2026$127,50040.1Mn/an/an/an/an/ayes
11 Jul 2026$120,50040.1Mn/an/an/an/an/ayes
9 Jun 2026$101,50040.1Mn/an/an/an/an/ayes
28 May 2026$79,50040.1Mn/an/an/an/an/ayes
27 Apr 2026$38,50040.1M40Mn/an/an/an/ayes
23 Feb 2026$38,500142kn/an/an/an/an/ayes
8 Feb 2026$17,000142kn/an/an/an/an/ayes
8 Feb 2026$14,500142kn/an/an/an/an/ayes

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